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Posted on 04/03/2007 2:32:00 AM PDT by NYer
ROME, APRIL 2, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Adolf Hitler's No. 1 enemy was the Vatican's secretary of state, Eugenio Pacelli, future Pope Pius XII, according to documents recently found in Europe.
In an article published last Thursday by La Repubblica, reporter Marco Ansaldo announced that he has a dossier on Pius XII that complements documentation found in the Vatican Archives.
According to the newly discovered documents, Pius XII was considered an enemy of the Third Reich. Memos and letters unearthed at a depot used by the Stasi, the East German secret police, show that Nazi spies within the Vatican were concerned at the Pope's efforts to help displaced Poles and Jews.
One document from the head of Berlin's police force tells Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Third Reich's foreign minister, that the Catholic Church was providing assistance to Jews "both in terms of people and financially."
Russia's motives
In a commentary on the new documents, Sister Margherita Marchione, author and expert on Pius XII, explains the campaign against the Pope was the work of the Soviets.
"Russia's plans were to control Europe after the war. The only outspoken obstacle to Russia's plan in Europe was the Catholic Church," Sister Marchione wrote.
"The first attacks claiming that the Church had endorsed silently the atrocities of the Nazis came from Communist Russia," she explained. "Soon to control Poland, and other vast areas in Eastern Europe, Russia saw the need to break the loyalty to the Pope of Catholic majorities in those countries.
"The plan was a simple one: convince everyone that the Pope supported the hated Nazis during the war and, therefore, neither he nor the Church could be trusted after the war. The destruction of the Church would leave the field wide open for Russian influence and control."
•1) Cornwell did not recant nor retract his bestselling book, "Hitler's Pope." Instead, he stands by every fact in his book.
•2) All American copies of "Hitler's Pope" possessed an accurately-labeled cover photo.
•3) Cornwell is a practicing Roman Catholic and was when he wrote his book.
•4) As Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pacelli signed the Concordat with Nazi German foreign minister Franz von Papen in 1933. As part of the Concordat, the Catholic Center Party (Zentrum), controlled by Pacelli's protege, Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, reversed its long-standing opposition to the Nazis and instead, voted to pass the Enabling Act which effectively handed over the German government to Hitler.
•5) This deal between the Vatican and the Nazis was made a full EIGHT YEARS after Hilter had written "Mein Kampf" in which he clearly and explicitly detailed his future plans for the Jewish people.
•6) Someone bought up the domain name, http://www.Hitler'sPope.com and used it to create an anti-Cornwell site which instead, supports "The Myth of Hilter's Pope."
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You’ve corrected one of your lies. Congratulations. But so many remain. You should be ashamed of yourself.
They are stooges of a communist tyrant long since passed to hell.
It’s so sad.
You have been corrected over and over again, yet you repeat the same slanders.
There is no hope for you. You are too invested in your view of the Church.
"expound the Bible, expose the Papacy, and to promote, defend and maintain Bible Protestantism in Europe and further afield."
Exposing the Papacy! It's a mission of love.
Your recap is seriously flawed.
You can get equally good material from www.chick.com.
not.
Nah, it's just the same creative use of chronology that allows David Dalin to try to influence the Vatican to recognize Israel in 1994 by publishing a book defending Pius XII in 2005.
I mean, what difference does the sequence of events make when you're on a mission to "expose the Papacy"?
I don’t suspect there will be a correction or admission of error - just more bluster and diversion.
Thank you all for your stalwart efforts in support of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
May God bless you.
(sorry) meant to include you also.
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That is absolutely false. Pacelli wanted a Concordat with the previous chancellors of the Weimar Republic but they refused him. Pacelli found in Hitler a man who was willing to give him the concordat that he wanted but his predecessors had refused. Passage of the Enabling Act and dissolution of the Catholic Center Party were the preconditions for Hitler's signature on the Concordat, and Pacelli got his protege Monsignor Kass to make it happen so that the Concordat could happen.
Here is how one reviewer says it:
"In the 1930s this allegedly brilliant diplomat was outfoxed and outmanoeuvred by the Nazis at every turn. Obsessed with securing Concordat-style treaties with nation-states along the lines of the Lateran treaties signed with Mussolini in 1929, Pacelli destroyed the Catholic Centre Party in Germany, the only real opposition to Hitler after 1933 and the significant opposition to the Enabling Act of 1933 that gave the Führer dictatorial powers. Pacelli ordered the Centre Party to dissolve itself, as this was Hitler's condition for signing a Concordat. The Catholic Church in Germany was gagged by the Vatican, forbidden to comment on political affairs. Hitler was able to turn his attention to the Jews with his flank secured and could boast that the Concordat proved that Nazism was the standard-bearer of Christianity against atheistic communism."
It is history. Face it. Everybody who examines the facts knows it to be true.
Prove it.
Prove it.
History already has. Without the votes of Monsignor Kass's Catholic Center Party there would have been no Enabling Act ---
That is not proof of your fanciful chronology. I say again: Prove it.
(I won't hold my breath.)
Let’s take the facts one at a time. Did the Enabling Acts pass with the votes of Monsignor Kass’s Catholic Center Party or not? Yes or No.
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